Equities

  • Principal buys lions share of Liongate

    Principal buys lions share of Liongate

    Principal Global Investors has bought a majority stake in Liongate Capital Management in a bid to meet increased client demand for both alternative investments and portfolio-wide hedged solutions.

  • Kames revamp fee structure on absolute return fund

    Kames revamp fee structure on absolute return fund

    Kames has removed the performance fee on its UK Equity Absolute Return Fund in a bid to simplify the charging structure following RDR.

  • Profits fall at Henderson

    Profits fall at Henderson

    Henderson AUM increased marginally in 2012, but the firm’s profits fell by 8% the end of year report showed.

  • Schroders re-opens US small-cap strategy

    Schroders re-opens US small-cap strategy

    Schroders has re-opened its US mid-cap strategy to capitalise on renewed investor appetite for developed market equities.

  • African opportunities

    African opportunities

    There is an abundance of high-yield opportunities in Africa for those investors prepared to take a bit more of a risk, a research report from Jupiter Asset Management suggests.

  • potter - world running out of bearish reasons

    potter – world running out of bearish reasons

    Investors considering allocating to equities for the first time in years could do a lot better than “dipping their toes in the water” with large caps, according to Gary Potter, co-head of multi-manager funds at Thames River.

  • Equities rise as sterling plummets

    Equities rise as sterling plummets

    The UK equity market is outpacing its European counterparts, and could continue doing so despite on-going currency woes according to the chief investment officer at Coutts.

  • slis hudson - bolstered banks behind rally

    slis hudson – bolstered banks behind rally

    Consensus among Standard Life Investments’ fund managers is that banks will play an important role to ongoing performance in corporate bonds and equities, according to Frances Hudson, the group’s global thematic strategist.

  • Overpriced bonds

    Overpriced bonds

    The number of UK-based investment professionals who feel corporate bonds are overpriced has doubled in the past year.

  • Lost decade for equities

    Lost decade for equities

    UK equities remain a force to be reckoned with despite a degree of negative sentiment towards the market, according to both fund managers and pickers.

  • the japan strategies to take notice of

    the japan strategies to take notice of

    How many times have we heard it before? The three words 'Japan', 'new' and 'dawn' in the same sentence. But if you're hell-bent on allocating to the country are there ways to do it without suffering scars?

  • morant wright taken off oyster japan

    morant wright taken off oyster japan

    Syz Asset Management has appointed Japan equities guru Joël Le Saux to manage its institutional and retail strategies in the region, replacing Morant Wright at the helm of its Oyster Japan Opportunities Fund.